{"id":18536,"date":"2016-06-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lagourmandista.pixelbot.com.mx\/the-grande-table\/"},"modified":"2016-06-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T10:00:00","slug":"french-grande-table-internship-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lagourmandista.pixelbot.com.mx\/en\/french-grande-table-internship-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a French Grande Table? My Internship in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To talk about a French <em>\u201cGrande Table\u201d<\/em> is to talk about a spectacular place in the broadest possible sense of the word. It indicates that from the moment we enter the establishment, our experience will be unique; a once in a lifetime kind of thing. 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